Urban Management
Based at the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (PUCPR), the Graduate Program in Urban Management (PPGTU) is a transdisciplinary center for urban studies that is part of the School of Fine Arts. Strategically located in Curitiba, Brazil—a city known for its innovative role in urban transport and environmental planning—and established in 2002, PPGTU offers research degrees at masters and doctorate levels. Every year 30 (masters and doctorate) candidates enroll, from the Americas, Africa, Europe, and Asia. The Program’s focus comprises the following research areas: urban and regional planning and design, environmental management and technologies, and public policy. PPGTU is also responsible for the publication of URBE, a major Latin American journal in urban studies (www.scielo.br/urbe), indexed in Scopus, Web of Science, and Scielo.
Objectives
The Graduate Program in Urban Management (PPGTU) is committed, through its professors and candidates, to contributing to the advancement of knowledge in urban studies and promoting high-quality research in this multidisciplinary field, both nationally and internationally. More than just striving for recognition from State bodies, the program is dedicated to developing Latin American science in dialogue with the global south. To this end, the PPGTU aims to:
- Train researchers capable of contributing with original and relevant knowledge to the conceptual and empirical forefront of urban management from the three research areas of the program;
- Produce and disseminate knowledge about urban management, nationally and internationally, through academic training, scientific publications, participation and hosting of scientific events, debates, and open seminars involving the scientific community, the civil society organized and state bodies;
- Train qualified professors to conduct teaching, research, and extension activities in the area of urban management, aligned with the three research areas of the PPGTU;
- Work with decision-makers and public managers to gain multiple perspectives while assessing and studying urban projects and their interplay with public policy at the municipal level;
- Work with students at different levels, from undergraduate fellows to doctorate and post-doctorate researchers;
- Foster critical analysis on city planning and management, training researchers and public managers directly and indirectly involved in the management of cities and metropolitan regions;
- Contribute to the knowledge of Brazilian and Latin American cities and the practice of urban management in general.
Application Process
The application process for the Master and Doctorate follows the criteria established in the annual Call, launched every July and published on this website and through other communication channels, including social media. The selection involves four stages: (i) a written test on knowledge in urban management; (ii) a curriculum analysis highlighting academic activities, scientific contributions, and social impact; (iii) a Research project to be developed at the PPGTU; (iv) an Interview, conducted by a panel of professors from the program.
Scholarships are awarded through a separate call, launched annually after joining the program. Academic merit is the main criterion, as required by funding agency regulations. However, inclusion and diversity factors related to income, race, ethnicity, and gender are also considered.
History
The Graduate Program in Urban Management (PPGTU) began in 2003 offering a master’s degree in Urban Management, linked to the Center for Science and Technology through the Architecture and Urbanism program. The program was first authorized by CAPES (the Brazilian regulatory agency for graduate programs at the Ministry of Education) to enroll students in August 2003. Currently, PPGTU is part of the School of Fine Arts, and aims to develop studies and research to contribute to the theoretical-scientific and applied field of urban and regional planning.
Since its beginning, the Graduate Program in Urban Management (PPGTU) has pursued academic excellence, which was reflected in its initial triennial evaluation (2004-2006) when it received a grade of 4 in the national assessment system (ranging from 2 to 7). This achievement paved the way for the program to seek doctoral permission, leading to the enrollment of the first doctoral candidates in 2009. In the subsequent triennial evaluation (2010-2012), the PPGTU’s performance improved, reaching a grade of 5. The program maintained this level in the 2013-2016 period, which was marked by continuous efforts towards internationalization. As a result, the program established a series of doctoral double degree agreements with foreign universities and attracted students and researchers from abroad for postdoctoral research.
Additionally, several researchers from the program collaborated with foreign universities by participating or leading research projects as well as through postdoctoral fellowships for professors in other institutions, in Brazil and abroad. The program encourages the mobility of both professors and students, facilitating research collaborations with other institutions, thereby promoting the program’s internationalization strategy. Its strategic decision to act in the context of the Global South and, more specifically, in Latin America stands out. Its internationalization process is accompanied by social inclusion and innovation, emphasizing diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to return its production to communities. The program actively engages in debates with public bodies at various federative levels, aiming to transfer knowledge and facilitate policymaking.
Throughout its history, PPGTU has endeavored to establish itself as a leading center for research, professional training, and urban management studies. The program has contributed significantly to conceptual and empirical discussions on the urban and regional planning, urban policies, environmental management, and related technologies. The program’s excellence has been recognized through its performance in the national evaluation system (CAPES) in Urban and Regional Planning/Demography, achieving a score of 6 in the last quadrennium (2017-2021). In 2022, the program will welcome its 21st group of master’s students and the 15th group of Ph.D. candidates, with an average annual intake of 15 students at each level. The program has already supervised 293 master’s theses and 70 doctoral theses, evidence of its impact across various Brazilian regions and Latin American countries. As a result of its prominence in the field of urban studies, PUCPR, along with the PPGTU, has expressed its interest in expanding its actions of solidarity and nucleation, as recommended for graduate programs with grade 6 by CAPES.
In addition to its academic and research achievements, PPGTU has also made a significant contribution to the dissemination of knowledge in the field of urban studies by creating urbe in 2009. URBE has become a leading journal in urban studies not only in Brazil but also in Latin America. The journal’s scope covers the multifaceted nature of the urban phenomenon and its materiality in the territory, publishing theoretical and empirical articles that emerge from various fields that constitute urban studies, such as urban and regional planning, architecture and urbanism, public management and administration, public policies, geography, urban infrastructure and technologies, and environment science. URBE is ranked at the highest level in the Brazilian journal evaluation system and is also internationally recognized, being indexed in renowned databases such as SciELO, Scopus, Web of Science, and Redalyc. The journal is committed to ensuring an online, high-quality, and open-access platform for sharing urban research with a global audience (scielo.br/urbe).
Target audience
It is aimed at graduates in higher education who are interested in working within the scope of the program’s research areas.
The candidate’s education may have been in areas that are linked to urban management, such as Administration, Architecture and Urbanism, Political Science, Social Communication, Accounting, Law, Economics, Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering, Philosophy, Geology, Geography, Computing, Computing System, Social Service, Sociology, and Tourism, among others.
Fields of Work
The Urban Management Graduate Program student will be able to:
- Teach undergraduate and specialization courses in areas related to urban management and their academic and professional education.
- Organize methodological procedures in scientific research related to their area of knowledge or interest.
- Produce and disseminate knowledge related to subjects studied and developed in academia and their professional activities.
- Diagnose urban and regional problems and potentialities for the formulation of municipal development projects.
- Prepare and implement municipal planning processes and practices in their strategic, physical-territorial, budgetary, operational, and sectoral modalities, considering the participation of organized civil society.
- Conduct and participate in urban and community management processes, local public policy, social projects, public programs, and participatory actions in municipalities.
- Work in public or private institutions related to urban or municipal management, whether in employment or service provision activities, such as advisory and consultancy services.
Structure of the Program
STUDENT’S CREDITS AND ACHIEVEMENT
Master’s
To complete the master’s degree, the student must have 20 academic credits with a grade higher than C; 14 credits are compulsory, and six are elective. Additionally, four credits will be conferred through the successful defense of a thesis.
Doctorate
The student must have a total of 36 academic credits with a grade higher than C to complete the doctorate: 18 credits must be obtained from the courses at the master’s level, nine credits from mandatory doctoral courses, and nine credits as doctoral elective courses. Additionally, two credits in scientific production and ten credits will be awarded to the student upon successful defense of the dissertation.
SUFFICIENCY AND PROFICIENCY OF LANGUAGES:
Master’s Degree:
Knowledge of English will be required from the student within six months after admission.
Doctorate:
Proof of proficiency (advanced level) in a foreign language will be required from the student through tests recognized by CAPES, up to 18 months after entering the Program. They must prove sufficiency in a second foreign language within six months after entering the Program. One of the two languages must be English.
International students will have to prove, in addition to the languages already requested, mastery of the Portuguese language within six months after the beginning of the Program.
TRAINING COURSES:
Classes are taught on Monday and Tuesday mornings, and there may be activities in other periods, notably when a foreign or external professor visits the program. Required courses are taught on Monday and Tuesday mornings. For elective courses, students and professors agree on schedules suitable for most participants.
The class schedule is defined at the beginning of each term.
COOPERATION WITH OTHER INSTITUTIONS:
PPGTU participates in numerous collaborations with teaching and research institutions in Brazil and abroad. Mutual collaborations take place at the levels of academic mobility (student and teaching internships), dual degrees, research projects, participation in inter-institutional research groups and associations, participation in events in Brazil and abroad, and joint publications. Program researchers actively participate in projects with other institutions and receive support from national and international institutions, collaborators, and coordinators of research in urban studies.
Post-Doctorate
PPGTU offers postdoctoral opportunities for researchers who have an academic distinction in their area of interest with a supervising professor who has the profile and availability to monitor research within the Program.
Interested parties should seek out Program professors and start the process of a research program that must be submitted to their Council.
Applications of interested researchers, national and foreign, can be made continuously.
Scholarships are possible, and these need to be approved by the Program and support agencies.
SPECIAL CALL ON EMERGING THEMES | 2024
1. Public Policy
This research area emphasizes research on planning, management, and governance, focusing on institutional arrangements, articulation practices, and participation of socio-political actors in the elaboration, implementation, and monitoring of different areas of public policy. The objectives are to analyze the transformation of public administration and civil society performance practice, emphasizing the use of planning instruments, information, communication systems, technologies, and management at different scales: community, municipal, inter-municipal, metropolitan, and state, in national and international networks.
Members:
- Dr. Denis Alcides Rezende
- Dra. Geisa Bugs
- Dr. Mario Procopiuck
- Dr. Paulo Nascimento Neto
2. Urban and Regional Planning and Project
This research area emphasizes studies on urban and regional planning instruments, with emphasis on master plans, strategic planning, sectorial planning, and physical and territorial planning; the impacts of large urban projects; morphology, design, and natural and built urban landscape; regionalization and metropolization; infrastructure networks and urban services, and urban mobility and transformations in space linked to the incorporation of information technologies.
Members:
- Dra. Agnes de Silva Araújo
- Dr. Carlos Hardt
- Dr. Clovis Ultramari
- Dr. Letícia Peret Antunes Hardt
- Dr. Rodrigo José Firmino
3. Management and Environmental Technologies
This research area emphasizes the role of natural resources in promoting urban development and the population’s quality of life. It addresses the patterns of use and occupation of urban land as elements of complexity in the management of cities and their reflexes in the exhaustion of stocks of strategic natural resources, in the generalized pollution of urban centers, and changes in ecosystem biodynamics. Considering that most Brazilian environmental problems are fundamentally management problems, research in this area focuses on the analysis of urban environmental problems under this focus, considering the use of technologies to minimize or mitigate their effects.
Members:
- Dr. Altair Rosa
- Dr. Fábio Teodoro de Souza
- Dr. Harry Alberto Bollmann
- Dra. Luciene Pimentel
PPGTU invests heavily in internationalization, and these actions include the following:
- PPGTU organizes an annual Doctoral School with foreign researchers’ focusing on Latin America—Escuela Doctoral Latino-Americana de Estudios Urbanos. The Program is carried out in three distinct modules, covering the three PPGTU Research Areas.
- The Program is evaluated annually in processes that involve prominent researchers from the leading national and foreign universities in Latin America as evaluators. The evaluators are invited to spend two days at PPGTU and issue a qualitative opinion based on the Program’s performance data.
- Annually, foreign professors participate in the Program’s teaching courses and provide lectures to master’s and doctoral students.
- On its board of permanent faculty, there are two professors from US institutions; one from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and one from the University of Washington in St. Louis. Both maintain active participation in the PPGTU, guiding master’s, doctorate, and PIBIC students, offering courses, research projects, and publication assistance.
- They participate in a model of scientific initiation created by PUCPR—the PIBIC International Master’s—which involves foreign undergraduate students with extremely high potential and performance in PIBIC project development at the master’s level, and who simultaneously start to fulfill credits from the end of their undergraduate studies in their country of origin and their master’s degree at PPGTU.
- Most master’s and doctorate program courses use international bibliographies mixed with relevant national texts.
- PPGTU professors organize and participate in various events and programs abroad, together with their foreign research partners, in which the participation of master’s and doctorate students, is encouraged.
- PPGTU professors often participate in research projects with colleagues from foreign institutions and, in many cases, funding from international agencies. They also participate as reviewers and members of the editorial board from several international journals.
- PPGTU frequently receives master’s and doctorate students from different countries—especially Latin American countries—who join the Program and interact with Brazilian students and students who come for research periods.
- PPGTU students, especially doctorate students, are encouraged to conduct part of their doctorate abroad and apply for scholarships.
- We have a dual degree program for Ph.Ds. covering several countries, languages, and universities, with the possibility of new agreements and opportunities that arise at the initiative of the student.
- PPGTU promotes and often finances the attendance of master’s and doctoral students to present papers in conferences abroad.
- PPGTU professors and students actively participate in international research groups, networks, and institutes. Professors participate in master’s and doctorate defense committees abroad.
- Throughout each year, PPGTU organizes several research events with foreign professors.
- PUCPR has the support of PUCPR Idiomas to assist in internationalization.
- The University also has an Internationalization Directorate specialized in the search for opportunities and the implementation of internationalization projects for students and professors.
- URBE Journal (www.scielo.br/urbe), maintained by PPGTU, publishes several papers by foreign researchers in English, Spanish, and French, and frequently organizes thematic editions with foreign guest editors. URBE is indexed in the most relevant international journals with global impact, such as Scopus, Web of Science, SciELO, RedALyC, and DOAJ.
The scientific structure of PPGTU can be summarized in the following chain of relationships (from general to specific): concentration area in urban management, which is linked to the three research lines (and respective research groups), which house research projects coordinated by the faculty staff, to whom theses, dissertations and other research works are linked, and to which the mandatory and elective courses are related. And finally, the research projects are brought together in a transversal way in what is called “structuring themes”, which contain the thematic DNA of PPGTU, as shown below.
1) Structuring theme “epistemology of urban studies”
- Hacking the urban environment: smart cities and the role of civic hackers in remaking the city (coordinator: Rodrigo Firmino).
- Contemporary global urban scenarios (coordinator: Clovis Ultramari).
- A cidade latino-americana e seus centros de produção científica: permanência de convergências autorais, temáticas exógenas e diálogos verticais (coordinator: Clovis Ultramari).
- Cidade e literatura: vazios investigativos e leituras interdisciplinares no estudo do urbano (coordinator: Clovis Ultramari).
2) Structuring theme “organizational studies”
- Local Government Response Towards Covid-19 Pandemic (coordinator: Paulo Neto).
- Governança urbana multinível e desenvolvimento ecossocioeconômico local (coordinator: Mário Procopiuck).
- Ecossocioeconomia urbana: arranjos socioprodutivos e autogestão comunitárias visando ao desenvolvimento territorial sustentável (coordinator: Mário Procopiuck).
3) Structuring theme “institutions and public policy”
- Conexões entre estudos regionais em perspectiva socioambiental (coordinator: Mário Procopiuck).
- Arranjos institucionais e de governança para inovações em políticas publicas para desenvolvimento urbano (coordinator: Mário Procopiuck).
- Política habitacional e gestão social da valorização da terra: (des)encontros e (rel)ações (coordinator: Paulo Neto).
- Prevenção de doenças crônicas não transmissíveis baseada em evidências na atenção primária de saúde no Brasil (coordinator: Rodrigo Reis).
- Project GUIA – Guide for Useful Interventions for Activity in Brazil and Latin America (coordinator: Rodrigo Reis).
- A política te deixa doente? Examinando a influência da ideologia política na mitigação da COVID-19 pelas Américas (coordinator: Rodrigo Reis).
4) Structuring theme “morphology and urban landscape”
- Paisagem Segura (coordinator: Letícia Hardt).
- Paisagem Planejada (coordinator: Letícia Hardt).
- Paisagem Socializada (coordinator: Letícia Hardt).
- Paisagem Iluminada (coordinator: Letícia Hardt).
- Paisagem Segregada (coordinator: Letícia Hardt).
- Paisagem Protegida (coordinator: Letícia Hardt).
- Paisagem Competitiva (coordinator: Letícia Hardt).
- Gestão da paisagem urbana e regional (coordinator: Letícia Hardt).
- Paisagem Sustentada (coordinator: Letícia Hardt).
- Paisagem Solidária: marcos referenciais para a gestão urbana democrática (coordinator: Letícia Hardt).
- Healthy Urban Living and Ageing in Place: physical activity, built environment and knowledge exchange in Brazilian cities (coordinator: Rodrigo Reis).
- International physical activity and the environment network study (coordinator: Rodrigo Reis).
- Estudo sobre associação entre atividade física e ambiente construído (coordinator: Rodrigo Reis).
- Espaços adolescentes: estudo dos espaços urbanos e atividade física do adolescentes de Curitiba (coordinator: Rodrigo Reis).
- External validity of the recreovia program: a qualitative evaluation (coordinator: Rodrigo Reis).
- Maps Global (Microscale Audit of Pedestrian Streetscape, Global Version) Brazil (coordinator: Rodrigo Reis).
5) Structuring theme “urban and regional planning and management”
- A Metropolização de Intervenções Urbanas: o projeto da Linha Verde no contexto do Estatuto da Metrópole (coordinator: Carlos Hardt).
- Gestão Metropolitana: planejamento urbano e regional (coordinator: Carlos Hardt).
6) Structuring theme “networks, technologies and territorialities”
- Cidade digital estratégica (strategic digital city): análises em cidades nacionais e internacionais (coordinator: Denis Rezende).
- Arranjos sóciotécnicos da mobilidade urbana (coordinator: Fábio Duarte).
- Territorialidades controladas, movimentos imobilizados (coordinator: Rodrigo Firmino).
7) Structuring theme “resilience and sustainability”
- Estruturação de Indicador de Preparação para Desastres nas Cidades (coordinator: Carlos Garcias).
- Utilização do Hazus Módulo de Enchentes no Brasil para Previsão de Cenários de Inundação e Estimativas de Perdas Econômicas (coordinator: Edilberto Moura).
- Cidade e solução: ecossocioeconomia Urbana: mitigação e adaptação às mudanças climáticas (coordinator: Fábio Teodoro).
- Energy Resilient City: o Biometano como Energia Sustentável para a Mobilidade Urbana (coordinator: Harry Bollmann).
8) Structuring theme “colective health”
- Estudo da incidência da dengue nas cidades: uma abordagem baseada em dados de saúde pública e variáveis urbanas (coordinator: Fábio Teodoro).
- Estudo da relação entre poluição atmosférica e doenças respiratórias sob a égide da Gestão Urbana (coordinator: Fábio Teodoro).
- Water Resilient City: Micropoluentes nas Águas dos Rios Urbanos: monitoramento, efeitos ao ambiente e à Saúde Pública, e alternativas de redução (coordinator: Harry Bollmann).
- Air Resilient City: Micropoluentes Atmosféricos Urbanos: monitoramento, efeitos à saúde e ao meio ambiente urbano e a relação com o desenho urbano na construção de cidades Resilientes (coordinator: Harry Bollmann).
- Disseminação dos resultados de pesquisa em saúde pública (coordinator: Rodrigo Reis).
- Understanding and applying evidence in local public health (coordinator: Rodrigo Reis).
- Avaliação das experiências da rede de programas de promoção de atividade física para comunidade (coordinator: Rodrigo Reis).
- Práticas locais e o uso de evidências na prevenção de doenças crônicas não transmissíveis no estado do Paraná (coordinator: Rodrigo Reis).
Faculty
Carlos Hardt
Graduated in Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Paraná (1977) and completed a Ph.D. in Environment and Development at the Federal University of Paraná (2004). Carlos is Professor and was Head of PPGTU (2013–2016), as well as of the Architecture and Urbanism course (2006 to 2013) at the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná. He was the coordinator of the strategic area of Cities at PUCPR and is currently the vice-leader of the research group on the Planning and Design of Urban and Regional Spaces. Professionally, he was board member and coordinator of the Committee on Architecture and Urbanism Education for CAU/PR (2011–2017) and is the coordinator of the Collegiate of State Entities of Architects and Urbanists for CAU/PR.
Main Topics: Urban and Metropolitan Planning and Management; Master Plans; Urban Landscape.
Selected Publications
• Hardt, L. P. A.; Hardt, C.; Hardt, M. (2020). Cidades e pandemias: uma história sem fim? Revista Políticas Públicas & Cidades, 6(esp).
• Hardt, L. P. A.; Pellizzaro, P. C.; Hardt, M.; Hardt, C. (2019). Metropolização: desigualdades regionais em
duplo sentido. Contribuciones a las Ciencias Sociales, 12.
• Spinosa, L.; Krama, M.; Hardt, C. (2018). Desenvolvimento Urbano baseado em Conhecimento e Ecossistemas de Inovação Urbanos: uma análise relacional em quatro cidades brasileiras. EURE, 44(131).
• Hardt, L.P.A.; Hardt, C.; Hardt, M. (2018). 'Forgotten' Open Spaces and 'Omitted' Social Groups. Mercator, 17.
• Pellizzaro, P. C. ; Hardt, L. P. A. ; Hardt, C. (2018). Protected Landscape: from predictions to realities. European Journal of Scientific Research, 149 (4).
Contact details:
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2240-3436
Clovis Ultramari
Architect, professor at the Pontifical University of Paraná (Graduate Program in Urban Management), and the Federal University of Paraná (Graduate Program in Environment and Urban Development). Professional experience in strategic and master planning in Brazil and abroad. In Brazil, he has worked with urban public policies at local, regional, and national levels. Urban/metropolitan land legislation propositions and physical-territorial analysis are recurrent topics in his assignments.
Main Topics: Large Urban Projects; Conceptual aspects of the city; Brazilian urban process; Methodological aspects in the urban studies field; Literature as a source to understand cities.
Selected Publications
• Ultramari, Clovis (2019). Conceito de cidade: dificuldades e razões para formulá-lo. Revista
Brasileira de Gestão e Desenvolvimento Regional,
15(6), 277-294.
• Cantarim, F.; Ultramari, C. (2019). Latin American
Cities: From Subservient Reproductions to
Intercontinental Dialogues. Humanities, 8(18).
• Ultramari, Clovis (2019). NYC, Chicago, Los Angeles:
Mayoral Speeches as a Source of Information. Urban
and Regional Planning, 4(3), 109-114.
• Ultramari, C.; Da Silva, R.; Meister, G. (2018).
Idealizing Brazilian cities: Their master plans from
1960 through 2015. Cities, 83, 186-192.
• Ultramari, C. (2016). Beyond solidarity and losses
in aid: strategic approaches towards adversity,
Development Policy Review, 34(3), 323-344.
Contact details:
E-mail: [email protected]
Denis Alcides Rezende
Professor and Researcher in Urban Management and Public Administration. Post-Doctorate in Strategic Digital City, 2013–2014 School of Public Service (DePaul University, USA). Post-Doctorate in Municipal Public Administration, University of São Paulo, Brazil. Ph.D. in Information Technology and Public-Private Strategic Planning from the Federal University of Santa Catarina. Master’s in Information Technology from the Federal University of Paraná. Bachelor’s in Business Administration. CNPq Research Fellow
Information Technology Management; Public Administration.
Selected Publications
• Rezende, D. A.; Flores, C. (2018). Twitter information for contributing to the strategic digital city: Towards citizens as co-managers. Telematics and Informatics, 35.
• Rezende, D. A. (2016). Digital City Projects: information and public services offered by Chicago and Curitiba. International Journal of Knowledge Society Research, 7.
• Rezende, D. A. (2016). Digital City: Chicago and Schaumburg (USA) Information, Sustainability
• Indicators and Public Services Projects. Revista de Gestão e Secretariado, 7.
• Rezende, D. A.; Procopiuck, M.; Figueiredo, F. C. (2015) Public Policy and a Strategic Digital City Project: A Case Study of the Brazilian Municipality of Vinhedo. The Journal of Urban Technology, 22.
• Rezende, D. A.; et al. (2014) Information and Telecommunications Project for a Digital City: A Brazilian case study. Telematics and Informatics, 31.
Contact details:
E-mail: [email protected]
Fábio Duarte
Professor in the Urban Management Program, and Research Scientist at the MIT Senseable City Lab, Duarte is also a CNPq Research Fellow. He obtained a Ph.D. in Communications and a bachelor’s degree in Architecture and Planning from the University of São Paulo and was a Research Associate at Harvard Graduate School of Design. Duarte is a consultant in urban mobility for the World Bank.
Main Topics: Cities & Technologies; Urban Mobility.
Selected Publications
• Duarte, F. (2019). Self-driving cars: A city perspective. Science Robotics, v. 4, p. eaav9843.
• Duarte, F. & Firmino, R. (2018). Unplugging the City: the urban phenomenon and its sociotechnical controversies. London: Routledge.
• Duarte, F. (2017). Space, Place, and Territory. London: Routledge.
• Duarte, F. & Ratti, C. (2018). The impact of autonomous vehicles on cities: a review. Journal of Urban Technology.
• Duarte, F.; Ultramari, C. (2011). Making public transport and housing match: Accomplishments and failures of Curitba’s BRT. Journal of Urban Planning and Development 138 (2).
Contact details:
E-mail: [email protected]
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Fabio_Duarte2
Fábio Teodoro de Souza
Professor in Urban Management and a member of the ROUTES towards Sustainability. From 2008 to 2010, Fabio worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Tsinghua University in Beijing (China). He obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPE/UFRJ) in 2004, and an MSc in Water Resources from COPPE/UFRJ (1999). Fabio obtained a BSc degree in Civil Engineering from the State University of Ponta Grossa (1995).
Main Topics: Transfer of Environmental Technologies; Urban Environmental Phenomena; Urban Health: respiratory diseases dengue, leptospirosis, cardiovascular diseases; Management and Environmental Technologies.
Selected Publications
• Souza, FT (2018). Morbidity Forecast in Cities: A Study of Urban Air Pollution and Respiratory Diseases in the Metropolitan Region of Curitiba, Brazil. Journal of Urban Health, AOP.
• Pinzón, DFDB, & Souza, FT (2016). A data based model as a metropolitan management tool: The Bogotá-Sabana region case study in Colombia. Land Use Policy, 54.
• Souza, F. T., Koerner, T. C., & Chlad, R. (2015). A data-based model for predicting wildfires in Chapada das Mesas National Park in the State of Maranhão. Environmental Earth Sciences, 74(4).
• Souza, F. T. (2014). A data-based model to locate mass movements triggered by seismic events in Sichuan, China. Environmental monitoring and assessment, 186(1).
• Souza, F. T., & Ebecken, N. F. (2012). A data based model to predict landslide induced by rainfall in Rio de Janeiro city. Geotechnical and geological engineering, 30(1).
Contact details:
E-mail: [email protected]
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Fabio_Teodoro_De_Souza
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5976-7156
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com.br/citations?user=ylpx9J0AAAAJ&hl=pt-BR
Geisa Bugs
Architect and Urban Planner, she holds a PhD from the Graduate Program in Urban and Regional Planning at UFRGS, with a visiting researcher period at Aalto University. She also has a Master’s in Geospatial Technologies in the Erasmus Mundus program. Geisa is a member of the research group CPLab at UFRGS and of the group Encounters, Territories and Networks [EN.T.RE].
Selected Publications
• Bugs, G; Isolan, F, B ; Rocha, K. R. (2020). Levantamento colaborativo de dados mediado por plataforma digital. V!RUS, v.21.
• Bugs, G. (2019). Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação, Sistemas de Informação Geográfica e a Participação Pública no Planejamento Urbano. 1. ed. Porto Alegre: Ulbra.
• Bugs, G. (2018). Spatial Data Analysis and Evaluation by Urban Planners of a PPGIS Experiment Performed in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, v.10964.
• Bugs, G; Bortoli, F. (2018). Participação ativista colaborativa utilizando cartografias digitais. V!RUS, v.1.
• Bugs, G; Granell, Carlos ; Fonts, Oscar ; M. Painho ; J. Huerta. (2010). An assessment of Public Participation GIS and Web 2.0 technologies in urban planning practice in Canela, Brazil. CITIES, v.27.
Contact details:
E-mail: [email protected]
Harry Alberto Bollmann
Civil Engineer with a Master’s degree in Hydraulic Engineering and Sanitation, and a Ph.D. in Water Resources Engineering and Environmental Sanitation. He is a Research Team Leader at PPGTU and teaches Environmental Planning in the Environmental Engineering Undergraduate Course. Fellow of the LEAD Institute International since 1994, working on issues related to the Environment and Sustainable Development.
Main Topics: Methodologies of Integrated Environmental Planning; Water Resources Monitoring in Small Urban Rivers; Pollution and Air Quality in the cities; Urban Sustainability; Urban Resilience with focus on City, Environment, and Health.
Selected Publications
• Procopiuck, M.; Rosa, A.; Bollman, H.A.; Moura, E.N. (2020). Socially evaluated impacts on a technologically transformed urban river. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 84.
• Barcellos, D.S.; Helwig, K.; Teedon, P.; Posseti, G.; Gervazoni, R.; Bollmann, H.A. (2020). Priority pharmaceutical
micropollutants and feasible management initiatives to control water pollution from the perspective of the
stakeholders. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, AOP.
• Barcellos, D.S.; Bollmann, H.A.; Azevedo, J.C.R. (2019). Prioritization of pharmaceuticals in urban rivers: the case of
oral contraceptives in the Belém River basin, Curitiba / PR, Brazil. Revista Ambiente e Agua, 14(3).
• Pasqual, J.C.; Bollmann, H.A.; Scott, C.; Edwiges, T.; Baptista,t.C. (2018). Assessment of Collective Production of
Biomethane from Livestock Waste for Urban Transportation Mobility in Brazil and the United States. Energies, 11(4).
• Pasqual, J. C.; Bollmann, H.A.; Scott, C (2016). Water-Energy- Food Nexus: Background and Perspectives for Braziland the United States by 2050. Journal ofAgriculturalScience and Technology B, 6.
Contact details:
E-mail: [email protected]
ResearchGate: researchgate.net/profile/Harry_Bollmann
Letícia Peret Antunes Hardt
Architect and Urbanist with a Ph.D. in Forestry Engineering (Urban Landscape). Professor at PUCPR since 1981 and a researcher at PPGTU since 2003. Leader of the CNPq Research Group on Planning and Design in Urban and Regional Spaces. Former President and current Advisory Counselor of the Brazilian Association of Landscape Architects (ABAP-BR) and President of the ABAP-Paraná. Former Coordinator of the Brazilian College of Architects and Urbanists and the Permanent Collegiate of Entities of Architecture and Urbanism (CEAU) for CAU-BR and member of the CEAU/CAU-PR. CNPq Research Fellow.
Main Topics: Urban and Regional Planning and Management; Landscape Architecture; Morphology and Urban Design; Environment and Natural Protected Areas; Preservation of Landscape Heritage; Thematic Studies on Landscape.
Selected Publications
• Hardt, L.P.A.; Hardt, C.; Hardt, M. (2020) Cidades e pandemias: uma história sem fim? Políticas Públicas & Cidades, 6(esp).
• Hardt, L.P.A.; Pellizzaro. P.C.; Hardt, C.; Hardt, M. (2019) Metropolização: desigualdades regionais em duplo sentido. Contribuciones a las Ciencias Sociales, 12.
• Hardt, L.P.A.; Hardt, C.; Hardt, M. (2018) 'Forgotten' open spaces and 'omitted' social groups. Mercator, 17.
• Lapchensk, A.; Hardt, L.P.A. (2018) Profilaxia Reversa: o estigma da lepra do hospital para a cidade. Saúde e Sociedade, 27(4).
• Pellizzaro, P.C.; Hardt, L.P.A.; Hardt, C. (2018) Protected Landscape: from predictions to realities. European Journal of Scientific Research, 149(4).
Contact details:
E-mail: [email protected]
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leticia_Peret_Antunes_Hardt
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6661-0050
Luciene Pimentel
Lecturer, works in the areas of hydrology, environment and urban systems. She holds a PhD in Civil Engineering and Hydrology from Newcastle University, and a master's degree in Water Resources Engineering from COPPE / UFRJ. She was Assistant Coordinator between 2016 and 2018 of the Graduate Program in the National Network in Water Resources Management and Regulation (PROF-Água, Polo UERJ). Worked with the initiatives of ClimateLabs (ERASMUS+) in measures to mitigate and adapt to climate change. She received a Jabuti award in 2016 in the category of Engineering Books, for "Hydrology, Engineering and the Environment".
Selected Publications
• Alberti, M.; Blanco, I.; Vox, G.; Pimentel da Silva, L.; Schettini, E. (2020). Proposal of a set of indicators for sustainability evaluation of food production in urban context. WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, v.243.
• Chacon, A.; Neffa, E.; Pimentel da Silva, L. (2020). Sapea-Água. Educação Ambiental e Gestão das Águas. Curitiba: Appris.
• Pimentel da Silva, L.; de Souza, F. (2020). Urban Management: Learning from Green Infrastructure,
Socioeconomics and Health Indicators in the Municipalities of the State of Paraná, Brazil. In: Leal Filho W., Tortato U., Frankenberger F. (Org.). World Sustainability Series. Springer.
• Loiola, C.; Mary, W.; Pimentel da Silva, L. (2018). Hydrological performance of modular-tray green roof systems for increasing the resilience of megacities to climate change. Journal of Hydrology, v.573.
• Cerqueira, L.; Pimentel da Silva, L. (2016). Methodological Proposal for Redesigning Informal Communities
- Constructing Resilience in Hydrological Stress Conditions. Ambiente & Sociedade, v.19.
Contact details:
E-mail: [email protected]
Mario Procopiuck
Administrator (UFPR) with a Master’s in Urban Management (PUCPR) and a Ph.D. in Administration (PUCPR). In the academic field, he is an Associate Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Urban Management. In the professional field, he works with government planning and judicial management activities.
Main Topics: Public Policies and Systems of Governance; Urban Management; Technology and Society; Creative Economy and Creative Cities; Ecosocioconomy.
Selected Publications
• Procopiuck, M.; Sousa, R.M.M.; Sampaio, C.A.C.; Procopiuck, A.P.V. (2021). Ecosocioeconomies and
local development: experiences in an urban farmers market in the Brazilian Amazon. Local Economy.
• Procopiuck, M.; Segovia, Y.N.S.; Procopiuck, A.P.V. (2020). Urban cycling mobility: management and urban institutional arrangements to support bicycle tourism activities - case study from Curitiba, Brazil. Transportation, 1.
• Procopiuck, M.; Rosa, A.; Bollman, H.A.; Moura, E.N. (2020). Socially evaluated impacts on a technologically transformed urban river. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 84.
• Moura, E.N.; Procopiuck, M. (2020). GIS-based spatial analysis: Basic sanitation services in Brazil. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 192(96).
• Silva, M.V.G.; Procopiuck, M. (2019). A produção científica sobre gestão urbana: análise bibliométrica 2010 a 2017. EURE, 45.
Contact details:
E-mail: [email protected]
ResearchGate: researchgate.net/profile/Mario Procopiuck
Paulo Nascimento Neto
Architect and Urbanist specializing in urban and environmental law; has an MPhil and Ph.D. in Urban Management. Researcher linked to the YBY-Land Studies Group, Urban Policies, and Space Production. Paulo has professional experience in the area of urban planning. Between 2011 and 2018, he worked at the Department of Urban Planning-Curitiba City Hall.
Main Topics: Housing Policy; Metropolitan Management; Municipal Cooperation.
Selected Publications
• Nascimento Neto, P.; Moreira, T. (2017). The metropolitan dimension of Housing Policy. Mercator, 16(e16027).
• Nascimento Neto, P.; Moreira, T.; Hardt, C.; Schussel, Z. (2015). Análise de políticas públicas: entre a modelagem e a realidade da política habitacional brasileira. Revista de Administração Pública, 49(4).
• Nascimento Neto, P.; Moreira, T. (2013). Desafíos y oportunidades sociales en la valorización de la tierra en Brasil. Bitacora Urbano Territorial, 22(1).
• Nascimento Neto, P. (2013). Resíduos sólidos urbanos: perspectivas de gestão intermunicipal em Regiões Metropolitanas. São Paulo: Ed. Atlas.
• Nascimento Neto, P.; Moreira, T.; Schussel, Z. (2012). Conceitos divergentes para políticas convergentes: descompassos entre a Política Nacional de Habitação e o Programa Minha Casa, Minha Vida. Revista Brasileira de Estudos Urbanos e Regionais (ANPUR), 14(1).
Contact details:
E-mail: [email protected]
ResearchGate: researchgate.net/profile/Paulo_Nascimento_Neto
ORCID:http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8518-9978
Rodrigo José Firmino
Current Head of the Graduate Program in Urban Management. Between September 2015 and September 2016, Rodrigo worked as a Visiting Scholar at the UCL Urban Lab in London. He has also been a CNPq Research Fellow since 2012. From 2004 to 2007, Rodrigo worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of São Paulo (USP). He obtained an MPhil in Architecture and Urbanism from USP (2000) and a Ph.D. in Urban Planning from Newcastle University in 2004. He has been the editor-in-chief of URBE (www.scielo.br/urbe) since 2009.
Main Topics: Cities & Technologies; Urban Surveillance; Securitization of Public Spaces; Smart Cities; Augmented Spaces; Urban Mobility.
• Nascimento Neto, P.; Moreira, T. (2017). The metropolitan dimension of Housing Policy. Mercator, 16(e16027).
• Nascimento Neto, P.; Moreira, T.; Hardt, C.; Schussel, Z. (2015). Análise de políticas públicas: entre a modelagem e a realidade da política habitacional brasileira. Revista de Administração Pública, 49(4).
• Nascimento Neto, P.; Moreira, T. (2013). Desafíos y oportunidades sociales en la valorización de la tierra en Brasil. Bitacora Urbano Territorial, 22(1).
• Nascimento Neto, P. (2013). Resíduos sólidos urbanos: perspectivas de gestão intermunicipal em Regiões Metropolitanas. São Paulo: Ed. Atlas.
• Nascimento Neto, P.; Moreira, T.; Schussel, Z. (2012). Conceitos divergentes para políticas convergentes:
descompassos entre a Política Nacional de Habitação e o Programa Minha Casa, Minha Vida. Revista Brasileira de Estudos Urbanos e Regionais (ANPUR), 14(1).
Contact details:
E-mail: [email protected]
ResearchGate: researchgate.net/profile/Rodrigo_Firmino
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0831-6603
Twitter: @rodrigo_firmino
Rodrigo Reis
Associate Professor of Public Health and the chair of Urban Design and Public Health at the Washington University in St. Louis. Rodrigo Reis is a former full professor (1995 to 2016) and is currently an affiliated professor in the Graduate Program in Urban Management at PUCPR. He has published extensively in leading peer-reviewed journals and is also part of the Lancet Physical Activity Series (2012 and 2016) and the Lancet Urban Design, Transport, and Health Series (2016). He serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Public Health, Journal of Physical Activity and Health, and International Society of Physical Activity and Health.
Main Topics: Public health; Urban health; Global health; Urban design and health; Transportation and health.
Selected Publications
• Leão, A. L. F.; Abonizio, H. Q.; Reis, R. S.; Kanashiro, M. (2020). Walkability variables: an empirical study in Rolândia - PR, Brazil. Ambiente Construído, 20, 475- 488.
• Yang, S.; Eyler, A.; Brownson, R.; Samuels, L.; Kyung, G.; Reis, R. S. (2019). Developing livable cities: do we have what it takes?. Cities & Health, 1.
• Giles-Corti, B., A. Vernez-Moudon, R. Reis, G. Turrell, A. L. Dannenberg, H. Badland, S. Foster, M. Lowe, J. F.
Sallis, M. Stevenson and N. Owen (2016). "City planning and population health: a global challenge." Lancet 388 (10062): 2912-2924.
• Reis, R. S., Salvo, D., Ogilvie, D., Lambert, E. V., Goenka, S., Brownson, R. C., & Lancet Physical Activity Series 2 Executive, C. (2016). Scaling up physical activity interventions worldwide: stepping up to larger and smarter approaches to get people moving. Lancet, 388(10051).
• Alberico, C. O., Schipperijn, J., & Reis, R. S. (2016). Use of global positioning system for physical activity research in youth: ESPACOS Adolescentes, Brazil. PrevMed.
Contact details:
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-9872-9865
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rodrigo_Reis3
Training courses
DOCTORATE
DOCTORAL OPEN PROJECT
Description: Research project. Production of advanced knowledge in urban management. Epistemological bases: a) local management, planning, and policy; and b) interdisciplinarity, intersectionality and sustainability, theoretical approaches, and methodological procedures for studies in urban management.
THEORIES AND CONCEPTS IN URBAN MANAGEMENT
Description: Module I. Science, the scientific community, theories, and concepts: Conceptions of the world, science, human beings, and scientific knowledge from epistemological perspectives from the main currents of knowledge: empiricism, idealism, rationalism, modernism, and postmodernism. Modern scientific thinking as an intellectual discipline. Formation of research programs and research communities. Reflections on fundamental sciences applied sciences and technologies. Module II. Urbanization and urban development on theoretical perspectives: Urbanization and cities from theoretical perspectives. Discussions about the urban context and the city. Module III. Currents of thought on the urban issue: Biopolitics, urban planning, and management. Critical urban theory.
CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN URBAN PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
Description: Familiarize doctoral students with contemporary international and national scientific production, focusing on a common problem and the problems discussed in each dissertation. The course will seek to map and present contemporary scientific production in national and international scientific journals.
MASTER’S DEGREE
EPISTEMOLOGY AND RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES IN URBAN MANAGEMENT
MANAGEMENT AND PUBLIC POLICY
URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Description: Thinking about urban and regional planning; Conceptual foundations; Methodological aspects at intra-urban, urban, and regional scales; and Planning and management instruments.
DISSERTATION ORIENTATION SEMINAR
URBAN SYSTEMS
URBAN AND REGIONAL SUSTAINABILITY
More Information
Master’s: Art. 41 PPGTU Resolution (Resolution no. 128/2013 – CONSUN)
Doctorate: Art. 50 PPGTU Resolution (Resolution no. 128/2013 – CONSUN)
We are always seeking to expand PPGTU’s direct community-related activities through research with significant scientific perspective and results that directly or indirectly increase social benefits. Thus, we publish partial results of our studies in non-specialized media and act in various civic and political spheres, participating in representative class forums. As already mentioned, the new type of entry into the doctorate and master’s degree, the organizational doctorate, is presented as innovative because of the high potential of bonding with public and private organizations to amplify the impacts of research developed by PPGTU in society and favor the social insertion of our graduate courses.
This modality and PPGTU’s activities are aligned with the six strategic areas at PUCPR, among which, the area of “Cities” stands out for its transdisciplinarity and the guarantee of always having a PPGTU member as a coordinator (as described below).
A commitment to direct action from the Program to respond to society’s demands for research and products developed by PPGTU researchers is divided into two actions created in 2018, with implementation beginning in 2019. The first, already mentioned, “PPGTU in the Legislative,” aims to draw the attention of councilors and representatives to the agenda of the Program’s daily research, in an attempt to establish a dialogue between science and the performance of these important social actors in the implementation and enforcement of municipal and state laws.
The second action has been treated internally as the responsibility of a program that focuses on studies on the urban environment and city management: the distribution of research results to the social actors involved in the studies and who might have collaborated in any way (organizations, institutions, and representatives that were interviewed). Thus, all researchers that work with relevant social groups will be responsible for giving back to these collectives through “PPGTU in the Community.” Additionally, the following activities by PPGTU professors stand out as specific actions for the social insertion of the Program:
- Participation in:
- State Environment Council
- Metropolitan Region Transport Council,
- Committee for the Implementation of the Metropolis Statute in Paraná
- Municipal Council of Transport of Curitiba
- Urbanism Commission of the Municipality of Curitiba,
- Commission of the Metropolis Statute in Paraná
- State Secretariat of Urban Development of Paraná
- Metropolitan Forums held in the eight Metropolitan Regions in Paraná together with the Public Ministry and the State Legislative Assembly
- Redesastres and other institutions in Paraná to exchange research and experiences in disaster prevention
- Marist Solidarity Network in a territorial development project with research on vulnerable territories in Latin America (with studies in the territory of Miravalles, Mexico, in 2018)
- Carrying out various consultancy activities for state, municipal governments, and companies in the areas of territorial organization and the use and occupation of urban, regional, and metropolitan land.
- PPGTU professors also serve on the Teaching and Training Commission of the Paraná Architecture and Urbanism Council, Brazilian Association of Landscape Architects-ABAP, Permanent Forum of Paraná’s Agenda 21, and the Fountains Committee of the Metropolitan Region of Curitiba and the Karst Technical Chamber.
PPGTU’s main strength is its constant self-criticism, consolidated in internal instruments for monitoring and evaluating the Program, such as the annual formal evaluation carried out by the Research Office and Graduate Studies, with the participation of an external member from the PUR/D area. Professors monitor the reaching and research quality using this internal assessment. Additionally, Rainer Randolph (UFRJ), Roberto Luiz do Carmo (Unicamp), Geraldo Magela Costa (UFMG), Rosana Aparecida Baeninger (Unicamp), Ivo Marcos Theis (FURB), Virgínia Pontual (UFPE), and Wilson Ribeiro dos Santos Jr (PUC-Camp) have participated as external members. This practice allowed us to adjust the program’s proposal, moving from a concentration in classes to quality research as the primary focus. Also, PPGTU has had a Program Planning Committee since 2017 (formed by the coordinator, research area leaders, and scholarship professors), which is responsible for initiating the discussion of structural and strategic issues in the Program, and this happens before the issues are discussed openly in the council with the presence of all professors.
These instruments have enabled us to be aware of our priorities to achieve the excellence sought since the beginning of the Program and maintains the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary character of the Program. The disciplines and research seek to analyze the technological, environmental, social, economic, political, administrative, and cultural aspects of the development and management of cities. It is also worth mentioning the consolidation of the URBE Journal, published by PPGTU since 2009. During this period, URBE was the first Brazilian journal in territorial studies accepted by the RedAlyc, DOAJ, SciELO, Scopus, and Web of Science databases. In 2009, when it was considered a Qualis/CAPES B2 level, the journal was only published in digital media. In 2013, the journal was classified Qualis A2 level in the PUR/D area because of its academic quality. Thus, the journal has a strong track record of knowledge dissemination.
Finally, the Program has some distinctive characteristics, such as:
- The ongoing effort (since its creation) for internationalization partnerships and mutual gains.
- The potential to work with different institutions and organizations (which increased from 2018 because of the program’s strategic plan to advance its impact and social insertion).
- The relationship it has built with its community highlighting the positive relationship between the secretariat and the faculty and the students and alumni.
Since 2011, PUCPR has engaged in a project called Excellence in Stricto Sensu that is aimed at internationalizing the institution’s programs to achieve maximum scores of 6 and 7 and to promote transdisciplinarity and innovation in different areas of knowledge, especially in its strategic areas. The PIBIC master program is one its greatest differentials (it allows talented students to attend both undergraduate and graduate stricto sensu programs and develop part of their research in a highly qualified foreign institution) as well as being in harmony with society and focusing on innovation.
The institution must also be constantly attentive to the changing needs of the society, with alignment/realignment to the CAPES criteria and oriented to develop internationally, having internationalization as its main guide in the search for quality in teaching and research.
Every graduate program must meet the criteria set by their corresponding committee; therefore, each program strategic planning and operating criteria needs to be done accordingly.
Criteria for each area need to be discussed within the program annually so that all necessary and appropriate corrective actions can be taken during the four-year period. Each program is committed to structuring and readjusting its strategic planning annually in search of excellence. In addition, the programs are encouraged to rethink their lines of research in order to adapt to the rapid changes that may occur in international and national scenarios.
This graduate program’s dynamism and flexibility must always meet quality criterion both in master’s and doctoral training and in the development of research and innovation, essentially aiming at the improvement of society. Thus, an annual review of each program strategic planning is requested that contains the topics below at a minimum:
- i. Mission and vision of the program;
- ii. Summarized annual opinion produced by an external evaluator; the annual evaluation by an external member is an institutional practice conducted since 2006, which allows for the annual performance of each program to be assessed according to the area criteria;
- iii. Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and risks (preparation of a SWOT matrix showing external and internal factors) considering the goals for the current and next four years;
- iv. Goals (measurable objectives) established for the consolidation and development of strengths and improvement of weaknesses;
- v. Actions (processes) necessary to achieve the objectives, people in charge, and monitoring instruments; in this topic, the coordinator and the institution should get involved to consider resizing the faculty and the student body, criteria for accreditation/re-accreditation, infrastructure, selection process, strategies to increase fundraising, and citations and innovation, among other items;
- vi. Preliminary text of the program’s self-assessment describing the last four years containing at least the following information: stages of the self-assessment process; analysis of results and achievement of objectives; necessary actions for its consolidation and internationalization;
The IDP (Institutional Development Plan) document presents the strategic plans of all the programs aligned with the institutional planning, containing the Mission, Vision, SWOT Matrix, Canvas, and road map, and providing information on the needs and intentions of the programs for the 2017–2020 and 2021–2024 quadrennium of the CAPES evaluation.